Win10 - Patchday 06/2020 Printing Issues

Normally I do not comment temporary issues. Especially as MS is mostly fixing them within the next update period. Unfortunately for this issue it does not seem MS is deploying it via Windows Update even in the near future. Therefore here a short notice.

When your system get patched with the 06/2020 cumulative update you may see issues with your printers. It does not matter if it is a USB printer or otherwise connected printers. The root cause is in the printer spooler itself. 

For more official information's please refer to this KB article.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4567512/windows-10-update-kb4567512

MS is providing manual hotfixes for this issue. Currently not deployed via Windows Update. If you encounter such a problem then please check out depending on your Win10 version these updates:

• Windows 10 Version 2004: KB4567523
• Windows 10 Version 1903 & 1909: KB4567512
• Windows 10 Version 1809: KB4567513
• Windows 10 Version 1803: KB4567514
• Windows 10 Version 1709: KB4567515
• Windows 10 Version 1703: KB4567516
• Windows 10 Version 1607: KB4567517
• Windows 10 Version 1507: KB4567518

Azure AD connected devices print to onprem printers

More and more customers ask me why still using on prem AD. Well there are still a few things we need on prem. That's why hybrid is still needed. One thing is printing. 

But now we can also print from Azure AD joined devices to on prem printers.

There are a few prerequisites:

• Windows 10 1703 (Creators Update) or higher.
• Windows Server 2016 on your print servers.
• An Azure AD tenant.
• Azure AD Connect, to synchronize your Active Directory with Azure AD.
• An MDM service, e.g. Intune, to configure the print settings on each device.
  

The full setup for this can be found at Mike Niehaus blog:
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/mniehaus/2018/04/04/printing-to-on-prem-printers-from-azure-ad-joined-devices/